Chu Chuyan’s fair face tinged with red, and she began fidgeting awkwardly. 

Zu An was momentarily speechless.

Don’t you feel embarrassed, asking about such a thing? You’re a woman!

“What do you mean, I wasn’t ‘abled’? I’ve always been ‘able’, all right?!” roared Zu An furiously.

“Heh!”

His remark was met with a roll of the eyes from Qiao Xueying. Please! Those of us here know the truth better than anyone else!

Chu Chuyan eventually spoke up. “Divine Physician Ji examined his condition and prescribed some medicine to cure him. The main ingredient was the Evanescent Lotus.”

“You mean the legendary Evanescent Lotus, that can raise a cultivator’s cultivation by a step for each flower petal consumed?” Qiao Xueying was shocked. “He gave that to you?”

As a cultivator, she knew better than anyone else how difficult it was to raise one’s cultivation even by a step, especially when one reached the later stages. A single flower petal could replace years of hard work that one would need in order to make a breakthrough. If a high-level cultivator were to consume it, it could easily offset decades or even centuries of hard work! That was just how precious a treasure the Evanescent Lotus was!

Chu Chuyan nodded in response, favoring...